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What's the deal with female knights? Were they ever a thing, or is modern fantasy just being politically correct?
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Joan of arc was real and was executed. Mulan was real and was executed. Boudica was real and was executed.
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Joan of Arc immediately comes to mind, but I'm not sure if she was officially a "knight". Since, correct me if I'm wrong, but Knighthood was a formal distinction, not a description of everyone who took up arms for a kingdom.
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>>1033285
They weren't really a thing. I'm sure you could dig back and find historical examples of dames who trained for combat or whatever. They'd just be anomalies, though.
Let's try to keep the sexism to a minimum this time around, we don't need a reminder why the fragile feminine frame isn't suited to big manly combat.
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Why does Russia seem to constantly start trouble throughout history?
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>>1029097
It doesn't.
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Maybe since WW2 ended, but hardly "throughout history".
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>>1029129
/thread
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Would /his/ consider Oda Nobunaga a historical 'good guy' or 'bad guy'?
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Definitely a historical guy.
More importantly, was he a historical big guy?
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>>1021333
He's a jap, therefore he is bad
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>>1021362
Didn't know he was still alive
Has he guest starred in any anime?
is this accurate?
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It depends on the out of Africa theory not being true.
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>>1044814
This
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>conflating language groups with biological races
>>>/trash/
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Why some parts of History are always kept in the dark ? As an history teacher in a very "urban" (hmm) region of Paris, I have to deal with many muslims who constantly resent History because their stupid-ass Imam told them Islam always existed and they realise it's actually the most recent abrahamic religion. Those kids need pandering, they think History is a long list of white people oppressing the rest.
That's why I taught them about Philip the Arab.
Who ? I'm sure 90% of you never heard about it. He was a roman emperor. He was from Syria (still on their money), was a republican (he believed the senat should have power), stopped giving a tribute to german tribes because he wasn't a cuck (and needed the money), he crushed the most powerful german tribe of this time and celebrated the 1000th anniversary of Rome foundation by a gigantic party. More importantly, he was secretly a Christian, way before Constantin.
Talking about this guy completly change my student's vision about Rome. They took interest and wanted to know how a guy from Syria can actually rule a gigantic "european" empire. Sure /pol/ wouldn't approve but this is how you make people think and break the stupid idea of History being White vs The World.
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>>1043674
>Why some parts of History are always kept in the dark ?
Because History is huge and regular people without a special interest in it can only be feed so much of it.
>the stupid idea of History being White vs The World.
That's now. People has always turned History into the fade bullshit of their time. In XIX History was Europeans and Christianity being superior, and today History is white people being evil, and every historical figure was a closeted gay.
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>>1043741
>and every historical figure was a closeted gay.
The Secret History of the Mongols details Genghis Khan's young adult years and there's a line where he "shared a blanket" with one of his close friends. Some historians have taken that to mean buttfucking, while others think they just cuddled no homo.
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>>1043674
Because the designers of the curricul of basic education have an agenda.
Why did Russians turn their backs on the family that turned Russia from a backwater feudal shithole to a modern European empire?
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because it still was a feudal shithole and nicky wanted to keep it that way
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Because it was feudal shithole even during reign of Romanovs, because the industrialization was slow and because the transition to capitalism was progressing slow too.
And because landlordship wasn't abolished.
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Because the elements of capitalism in Russia were hypermodern and concentrated in critical locations and industries. Because the rate of extractive profit in Russian agriculture was very high. Because peasant communities had a historical memory of success in the removal of serfdom, the expectation of more, and a hatred of landlords. Because literacy was the work of socialists and narodniks. Because the Russian ruling class and bourgeoisie were incompetent at repression and democracy. Because the Romanovs were horribly incompetent at statecraft. Because Russia lost a major war.
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Why did Westerners stop attending church?
What eroded the power of religion over people's lives?
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>>1037662
Jews and science.
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What a stupid question.
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>>1037664
Science and religion seem to represent different domains, though
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/his/ Tell me what you know about fascism
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delete this
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>>1037399
It would very much like to kill me and my fellow matzoh eaters
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>>1037399
Shitty narcissistic ideology that never admits when its wrong.
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I'm looking for an honest man.
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>>1036365
I'm Jesus Christ
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Have you tried masturbating in the public market?
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Hold up a mirror
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How did day to day life in communist countries like Russia under the Soviet Union differ from their capitalist rivals? Did workers earn wages that they were free to spend? Did businesses operate similarly but just run by the state? If you needed your shoe repaired where would you go?
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>>1034127
There was way more time spend standing in lines and pondering where one could get some necessary stuff, for one. Also since wages were fixed regardless of performance, plenty of people didn't do shit at work.
Wages were free to spend buuuut there wasn't much to actually spend them on. Black market was there, of course, but actual market prices were crazy expensive compared to salaries people got.
No, they had centralized plans they had to abide to. Almost nothing was actually decided within the business itself. This being said, there were small legally allowed ways of extra income, like selling your stuff on the farmers' market or repairing clothes.
To a shoe repairman, duh.
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>>1034127
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dFdKjhgt3k
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>>1034127
>Did workers earn wages that they were free to spend?
Yes, the problem was you couldn*t buy shit
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So everyone knows the "Hitler was the most evil man in history" meme. Let's ignore that for a moment.
Who was the most evil man (or woman) in history *who isn't a political figure*?
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me
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>>1044894
Some serial killer like Fish.
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>>1044894
define evil
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Ireland never had an empire
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How does this make you feel, /his/?
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That thin line hurts me deep in my soul.
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>>1039186
It makes me feel good
t. Margaret Thatcher
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Post three favorite philosophers and your favorite ideas
Joseph de maistre --Legitimate authority
Aristotle -- character
Ted Kaczynski -- surrogate activities
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>>1038909
Is that le Voltaire hate man?
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Maistre - proportions in history and the sacredness of bloodshed
Hayek - spontaneous emergence
Benjamin Constant - freedom and imagination
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>>1038920
fuck you faggot
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How was this madman able to come to power?
How did he take a democracy and turn it into a Hitlocentric dictatorship?
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>>1034954
Germans are sheeple.
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DUDE EMERGENCY POWERS LMAO
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>Alright, you can be Chancellor, but you're forming a coalition with the conservatives and Hindenburg remains president
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I can't believe that there was *Second* Mexican Empire. What are some other countries that you hard pressed to believe?
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>>1030934
The US should have just annexed Mexico what a stupid state to exist.
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>You will never live in a world where the Mexican empire exists
Why even live?
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Even if we are used to it, a Stalinist monarchy in the north half of Korea.